Crochet Baby Elephant Free Pattern

If you want to make a sleep companion for your child, then this Crochet Baby Elephant Pattern is for you. This wonderful amigurumi pattern allows you to create a delightful, cuddly baby elephant that will become a cherished item in your household. It can serve various purposes a playmate for your child, an attractive decor piece, or a heartwarming gift for someone special.

This charming baby elephant sports a lovable appearance with great attention to its features, like its sweet upturned trunk, cute little tusks, and huggable body. So, make crochet animal amigurumi and imagine a loved one’s joy when presented with such a lovely handcrafted piece.

Crochet Baby Elephant Free Pattern

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Materials Needed: 

Yarn:

• Main Body Color: The amount depends on yarn weight and finished size. Choose a soft, baby-safe yarn like acrylic or cotton blend.
• Accents (eyes, trunk, etc.): Small amounts in contrasting colors (optional).

Crochet Hook:

• Size suitable for your chosen yarn weight (e.g., 3.5mm for DK weight yarn).

Stuffing:

• Polyester fiberfill or other hypoallergenic stuffing.

Additional Materials (optional):

• Safety eyes: Choose a size appropriate for the finished elephant size.
• Embroidery thread and needle: For details like mouth or eyelashes.
• Tapestry needle: For sewing pieces together.
• Scissors: For cutting yarn.
• Stitch markers: To keep track of your place in the pattern (helpful for beginners).

Abbreviations: 

• sc (Single Crochet): Basic stitch, inserting hook, yarn over, pulling through both loops.
• inc (Increase): Create an additional stitch, often by crocheting two in one spot.
• rnds (Rounds): Repeated circles of crochet stitches worked continuously.
• dec (Decrease): Reduce stitches, usually by crocheting two together.

HEAD / BODY / LEG
Use the Gray yarn to make a MAGIC RING.
1. 6sc [6]
2. 6inc [12]
3. (sc, inc)* 6 [18] 4. (2sc, inc)* 6 [24] 5. (3sc, inc)* 6 [30] 6~9.[4rnds] 30sc [30] 10. (3sc, dec) * 6 [24] 11. (2sc, dec) * 6 [18] 12. (sc, dec) * 6 [12]
13. 12sc [12]

Stuff the head.
14. (sc, inc)* 6 [18] 15. (2sc, inc) * 6 [24] 16. (3sc, inc)* 6 [30] 17~22.[6rnds] 30sc [30]

DIVIDE THE LEGS
Sc in the 16th st of Rnd 22.
This sc is the first st of the first leg (left leg).
Continue working on the first leg (left leg).

23~24.[2rnds] 15sc [15] 26. (sc, dec) * 5 [10]
27. BLO : 5dec [5]

Fasten off, leaving a long tail. Stuff the leg. Using a yarn needle,
weave the yarn tail through the front loop of each remaining st and pull tight to close.

SECOND LEG (Right leg)
Rejoin the Gray yarn to the 1st back
unworked st of Rnd 22.
This sc is the first st for the second leg
(right Leg).
Continue working the second leg (right leg)
the same way as the first leg (left leg),
in Rnd 23-27. Using a yarn needle,
sew the between the legs closed.

EAR white x2, Gray x2
Use the White yarn to make a MAGIC RING.
1. 5sc [5] 2.5inc [10]
3. (sc, inc) * 5 [15]
4. (2sc, inc) * 5 [20]
Fasten off, and make another white ear,
two Gray ears by the same way.
Edging Place the white ear on Gray ear
and SC together.
White The stitches only through backloop/
Gray : Go through both loops.

NOSE
Use the Gray yarn to make a MAGIC RING.
1~3.[3rnds] 6sc [6]
4. (2sc, inc) * 2 [8]
5. 8sc [8]
6. (3sc, inc) * 2 [10]
7~8.[2rnds] 10sc [10]
Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing.

ARM x2
Use the Gray yarn to make a MAGIC RING.
1. 5sc [5]
2. 5inc [10]
3~8.[6rnds] 10sc [10]
Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing. Stuff the arm.

TAIL
Use the Gray yarn to make 6 chains.
1. 1slst in second ch from hook, 4slst [5]
Fasten off,
leaving a long tail for sewing.